| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.115 | Was sulphurous to smell: the holy eagle | Was sulphurous to smell: the holy Eagle |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.3 | When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames | When I to sulphurous and tormenting Flames |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.4 | You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, | You Sulph'rous and Thought-executing Fires, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.128 | There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous | There's hell, there's darkenes,there is the sulphurous |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.115 | Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt | Thou rather with thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt |
| Pericles | Per III.i.6 | Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida, | Thy nimble sulphirous flashes: ô How Lychorida! |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.204 | Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune | Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune |